{"id":889163,"date":"2024-12-19T08:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T03:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=889163"},"modified":"2024-12-19T08:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T03:22:41","slug":"meta-fined-263-5-million-for-2018-facebook-data-breach-impacting-29-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/19\/meta-fined-263-5-million-for-2018-facebook-data-breach-impacting-29-million-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta fined $263.5 million for 2018 Facebook data breach impacting 29 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s lead data privacy regulator for Meta has fined the social media giant $263.5 million for a Facebook security breach dating back to 2018, which affected 29 million users. <\/p>\n<p>The breach occurred when cyber attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook\u2019s code, specifically in the \u2018View As\u2019 feature, which allows users to see how their profiles appear to others. This flaw led to unauthorised access to personal data, including users\u2019 full names, contact details, locations,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s lead data privacy regulator for Meta has fined the social media giant $263.5 million for a Facebook security breach dating back to 2018, which affected 29 million users. The breach occurred when cyber attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook\u2019s code, specifically in the \u2018View As\u2019 feature, which allows users to see how their profiles appear to others. This flaw led to unauthorised access to personal data, including users\u2019 full names, contact details, locations,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}